Leadership through story telling
Image by Getty Images via Daylife As regular readers of the blog will know I’m a fan of story telling in a wide range of contexts and I’ve been reading about how they can be used in a leadership...
View ArticleAre the British naturally uncreative?
There was an interesting article in the Economist this week bemoaning the lack of flair amongst leading managers, citing several British bosses as good examples of dour leaders with little creativity...
View ArticleDo your senior managers need to be active on social?
Earlier this year a study revealed just how few senior executives have any kind of active profile on social media. Whether this matters or not depends on the purpose of your social media work. For...
View ArticleSix skills for leaders of a social business
Senior executives are sadly quite famous for not getting social media. They veer from not really bothering with it to not seeing the benefits of it. A lack of clear ROI is a significant factor in...
View ArticleManagement by walking around in a social world
Management by walking around (MBWA) is not a new concept. First popularised way back in 1982 by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence, it is a disarmingly simple...
View Article4 things that are stopping you from collaborating
If collaboration was a natural and thriving endeavour, then it seems unlikely that there would be such a clamour from organisations to do it better. A recent IBM study for instance found that over...
View ArticleUsing social business to disseminate strategy
I know what you’re thinking, that the foremost role of social business is to democratize the actual strategy creation process. It should be enabling employees from across the organisation to feed into...
View ArticleTim Cook on collaboration
Back in April Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the 25th anniversary of the MBA at Duke’s Fuqua Business School. Of particular note are his views on collaboration. He talks about the kind of people he...
View ArticleReport Looks at How to Improve Employee Engagement
A few weeks ago I wrote about some new research by Insead business school looking at how to effectively disseminate the strategy of an organisation to employees. They bemoaned the traditional cascade...
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What is the role of executives in a social business
Earlier this year Gartner released a report revealing that 80% of social business efforts fail to achieve the goals they set themselves. Chief amongst the causes of this failure is the poor leadership...
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How does social business change the role of the executive
Most implementations of social business tools and principles involve a change in how organisations behave, and of course in how the individuals that make up the organisation behave. Most of the...
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Why change projects fail
Something like 70% of big change projects within our organisations are said to fail. As social business is nothing if not a widespread change project, this is likely to be a major hurdle to overcome...
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How forgiving are you at work?
As children, we’re always told that forgiveness is a good thing, and the ability to forgive is bestowed as a positive character trait to possess. Whilst that’s nearly always true of life in general,...
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Innovation remains key for executives
Innovation is one of those areas where it seems unlikely that any business will admit to not having it as a priority, so it perhaps isn’t that surprising that a new study by PwC has highlighted the...
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What’s the purpose of your company?
Purpose is important for any endeavour we undertake, be that building an online community or a multinational organisation. It provides not just a motive for existing, but also a culture around which...
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Age discrimination in the workplace
A central plank of the social business philosophy is that it enables organisations to be strictly meritocratic. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you sit in the org chart, your ideas will be...
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Seven lessons to learn from network organisations
Networked organisations are all the rage at the moment as companies seek to flatten their management structures and become more responsive to the changing landscapes within which they operate. Despite...
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Using social business to support employees
A principle role of the modern manager is to support their team and aid them in the work they do. With social business, that responsibility is spread around the organisation, with support able to come...
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Executives Turning to Social Media to Make Decisions
In the early days of social media, many executives questioned the value it could bring to the workplace. Indeed, many were so hostile towards it that social media use by employees was banned at work....
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Collaboration is about behaviour, not software
The social software market is undoubtedly booming, with it said to be worth several billion dollars already. Whilst there are many facets of the social business field, in the enterprise sense,...
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